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With heavy shelling, Syrian tanks stormed through the restive city of Hama on Wednesday, occupying a central square that had witnessed the largest protests against the rule of President …

Washington - Just as Social Security and Medicare benefits were dangled above the shredder in the debt ceiling debate, another of Washington's sacred cows could end up on the …

With the hostage crisis behind him, the President is now ready to talk about the nation’s real problem. Nine paragraphs into his remarks today announcing the nation …

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) speaks with the press about the debt ceiling deal on Capitol Hill in Washington, Aug. 1, 2011. The bill passed today 74 …

(Image: JR / Truthout) During the bruising primary election season of 2008, a right-wing group put together a ninety-minute hit-job on Hillary Clinton and wanted to run …

An interesting thing happens when someone backs up. They get smaller in your vision.

Adam Hochschild is a National Book Award-nominated author and co-founder of Mother Jones. His work has brought alive the plight of history's victims, from the Belgian Congo to Stalin's …

Twenty Salvadoran soldiers await trial in Spain for crimes against humanity perpetrated during the Salvadoran Civil War. The extradition of war criminals to be …

It's becoming increasingly difficult for me to avoid a state of nausea whenever I turn on my television. The ongoing debate over the national deficit and the much fraught …